On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 13:21 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:54:50PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I'm interested in trying Haskell, particularly parsec, for some parsing > > problems. Things seem pretty unsettled (I track testing usually, though > > can get unstable), and I wonder if anyone could suggest what the best > > approach for me to take would be. > > > > It seems that neither testing nor unstable has a full suite of packages, > > since when I try out upgrades to 6.8 in aptitude a lot of stuff gets > > knocked out. > > > > I'm on i386; since some of the trouble seems to be on other > > architectures I'm hoping this will help. > > testing has ghc6 6.6.1-2 which includes parsec. Not at the moment: $ apt-show-versions -a libghc6-parsec-dev Not installed No testing version libghc6-parsec-dev 2.1.0.0-2 unstable
> > In unstable, ghc6 6.8.2-4 and libghc6-parsec-dev 2.1.0.0-2 are both > available for i386. But it seems lots of other packages aren't available for 6.8. > > > More generally, what's up with the packages? I see a patchwork, but I > > don't understand what's driving it. > > I haven't really been following the bigger picture; I'm still waiting > for mips/mipsel/powerpc/s390 to build ghc6. > > > Thanks > Ian > _______________________________________________ debian-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/debian-haskell
